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Curry Comb. v No. 236,681. Patented Jan. 18,1881.

itnesses Inventor lUNIIED STATES PATENT FEicE.

WILLIAM P. KELLOGG, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

CURRY-COMB.

'SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,681, dated January 18, 1881.

Application filed August 31, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM P. KELLOGG, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gurry-0ombs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a manner of forming a basket-handle for curry-combs; and the object of my improvement is to cheapen the cost of their manufacture, to produce a graspinghandle having all the requisite elements of strength, but of less weight and a less cumbersome form.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, there are three figures illustrating my invention, in all of which the same reference-letters are employed to designate the same parts.

Figure 1 illustrates the basket-back handle and an offset baskethandle of a curry-comb formed in the same manner separately, but riveted together at the shank and made according to myimproved method. Fig. 2 shows, applied to a curry-comb, my improved baskethandle formed on the back, and an ofl'set-handle with the two handles, the shank, the studs, and frame to which the serrated blades are attached made in one piece. Fig. 3 shows my improved basket handle for the back of the comb and the studs which connect it with the frame madein one piece, and combined with rivet-holes for attaching, by means of rivets, the studs to the frame, with the back basket-handle combined with a wooden offset-handle connected to the back basket-handle by means of a shank.

The several parts composing my invention, as constructed, are designated by letter-reference, and described as follows:

At A, A, and A are represented wires that are united at each end, as designated at S S, and which are curved outwardly therefrom in nearly parallel contour, to form a graspin g-width in their separation from each of their oppositely-united ends, and so as to produce the basket-handle B, which is raised up from and attached to the back of the comb-frame K K by means of studs 0 O and rivets or the hasket-handle B, its studs (J O, and the combfram'e K K may be cast in one piece of malleable metal, as shown in Fig. 2.

The basket-handle B is made in the same manner as the handle upon the back and designated as B, with the exception that the outer end curve, where the wires are united, is made more rounding in the former than in the latter.

When combined with the handle upon the back,

designated as B, the offset-handle B may be made separately and riveted to the other by means of the intervening shank It R 5 or they both may be cast together; or the two handles B and B, and the studs 0 O and frame K K may be made in one casting. The handle B, its studs 0 O, and frame K K, provided with the shank BB,may-a1so be made in onepiece, and, by means of the shank, combined with the wooden handle T; or the handle B and its studs may be cast in one piece and connected, by means of the shank, with the wooden handle T, and the studs 0 (3 connected to the frame K K separately by rivets.

While I have shown and described three Wires asjoined at their ends to form the hasket-handles B and B, more may be employed, if desired; but three are essential for the purposes of my invention. Iam wellaware thata patent has been granted to Cyrus W. Saladee, of Washington, District of Columbia, dated March 7 1865, numbered 46,710, in which a fiat frame-handle is shown and described as raised above the frame-back, with the handle so constructed as to be grasped by the hand for use on a line parallel with the serrated blades, which, when moved by the hand as grasped, must saw into the animals skin, rather than to be moved across the skin on a line of direction at right angles to the serrated comb-blades, and I fully disclaim any such location for my improved handle.

I am well aware that a grasp-handle has been applied to the back of currycombs at right angles to the serrated comb-blades which was composed of two separated wires secured to the comb-frame by staples, and which intermediately curved outwardly and oppositely in a plane parallel to the comb-back, the two wires composing which were driven into the offsethandle for attachment, as shown in the patent to O. W. Saladee, dated February 8, 1880. My improved basket-handle differs from this older device in the fact that it is made in one piece with the shank and studs, that it furnishes a handle contour for grasping, instead of a flat loop, and no staples are employed.

I am also aware that a back-grasp for a curry-comb has been constructed in which two wires were employed, and which united at the shank where joining the offsethandle, and therefrom spread outwardlyin a V-shaped extension, as shown in the patent to Miles Sweet, dated April 16, 1878.

I am also aware that it is not new, broadly considered, to apply a raised handle to the back of a curry-comb, and with it, at right angles to the line of the comb-blades, and that my invention is limited to the manner offormin g the handles and their attachments.

I am well aware that a curry-comb has been invented by Miles Sweet, of Troy, New York, having an elliptical concavo convex handle provided with bifurcated extensions at each end to brace and secure the same to the frame,

. and so far as myinvention relates to the form produced it is subordinate to said older invention, and is limited to the manner of producing the form which is shown and described, by means of wires arranged and connected as illustrated.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A raised handle upon the back of a curry-comb, attached to the frame-back at right angles to the serrated comb-blades by means of studs, and formed by the wires A A A, which at both ends of each wire are united together and are intermediately curved outwardly in parallel, or nearly parallel, contour, between their joined ends, to form the baskethandle B, as herein shown and described.

2. In a curry-comb, the combination of the raised basket-handle B, the offset basket-handle B, the intermediate shank R, the supporting-studs, and the frame KK, made in one piece of malleable casting, as and for the purposes described and set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 4th day of August, i880.

\VM. P. KELLOGG.

\Vitnesses WM. A. SAXE, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL. 

